According to Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Campaign for Human
Rights in Iran, If Trump’s “executive order had been in effect in 2009,
it would have prevented Iranian dissidents, including Nobel Peace
Laureate Shirin Ebadi, from entering the United States to speak about the Islamic Republic’s violent repression
of pro-democracy protesters who disputed the results of the
presidential election that year. . .This order has left those Iranians
most vulnerable to persecution, at the mercy of the Islamic Republic,”
Below is the text of a press release from the Campaign for Human Rights
in Iran.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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